sun tracker ( gps solar panels tracker )

Lukasz

hi everyone

I want calculate solar panel position

using GPS posiotion ( lattitude, longitude ) and date and time,

could you share me some informations about algorithm ?

best regards

Lukasz

0 Brian Boorman over 11 years ago

Guru 25210 points

Lukasz,

I would recommend reading the Wikipedia entry for Solar Azimuth Angle and Solar Elevation.

The NREL has a website that allows you to input those same parameters that you mention and get the solar position: http://www.nrel.gov/midc/solpos/solpos.html

The website looks like it calls a Perl script on the server, but they also have a link to a C source code file here: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codesandalgorithms/solpos/

Hope that is useful.

0 Lukasz over 11 years ago in reply to Brian Boorman

thanks brian for response,

I know NREL's algorithm,

best regards

Lukasz,

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